Drag your thoughts awayfrom your troubles...by the ears, by the heels,or any other way you can manage it.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Tom Hayden

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Paulo Coelho

Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.

Shvetashvatara Upanishad

You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.

Jay Asher

I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.

Steven Wright

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Henry David Thoreau

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield

The way to get people to love you is to show them that you love them.

Adrienne Maria Vrettos

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

Haruki Murakami

Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.

George E. Bergman

Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit.

Jerry Martin

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

Scott Turow